Adepeate Toto: last late review for a while

[richardthinks]

Since there's no moment of doubt about which One to Let In, I'm going to just trust teh Wikipedia that it's a reference to a Morrissey song. Curious.
Also curious: the not-present day, not-period setting; the references to Brezhnev as a Swedish official; the elisions in the movie from the book plot (which render almost all the relationships in the

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[richardthinks]

Yes. The one but of William Gibson's work that I really enjoyed reading was the first half of Count Zero, I think exactly because I hadn't read Neuromancer and I had to negotiate his shorthand on my own. Elmore Leonard says you shouldn't write prologues in fiction because that's all backstory and can be interpolated in the narrative. I'd go further and say by all means write all the up-front explanation you want in your first draft so you're comfortable your reader knows exactly what's going on and just how clever everyone is being, and then in the edit go back and rip it all out again and see if the story still stands up.